Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.

• BBC
• Time-Life Television Productions
• Tony Church
• John Stride
• Julian Glover
• Jeremy Kemp
• David Rintoul
• Timothy West
• John Rowe
• Lewis Flander